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PDF industry presentations

The PDF Association hosts a library of recordings of educational presentations by members and guest speakers at industry events. This collection, now including downloadable slide decks in many cases, is now accessible from pdfa.org.

All presentations are posted as received from the speaker. The PDF Association does not take responsibility for presentation content, comments by attendees or the speakers’ downloadable PDF files.

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Peter Wyatt
The future: re-imagining the best possible definition of PDF

We can and must do better if PDF is to remain reliable, portable, and relevant – and thus grow into the future for all its stakeholders. And now, we have that chance…

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It’s your PDF Association
Getting the most from the meeting-place of the PDF industry
Duff Johnson, Thomas Zellmann at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community

Everyone is welcome to attend this session to learn about the PDF Association’s services and support for its members.



The future: re-imagining the best possible definition of PDF
Specifications, standards, agility, correctness and the reliability imperative
Peter Wyatt at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF 2.0 Keynote

We can and must do better if PDF is to remain reliable, portable, and relevant – and thus grow into the future for all its stakeholders. And now, we have that chance…

Peter Wyatt


Is Digital Transformation the end of PDF?
PDF use in Boeing, and its role relative to Boeing's digital transformation
Kenny Swope at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Engineering / 3D Keynote

At Boeing, the company is fully engaged in a digital transformation that seeks to redefine how aerospace products are defined, developed, produced, and serviced.  We will examine PDF use in Boeing and share thoughts on its role relative to digital … Read more

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ISO TC 171 SC 2 and TC 130: a summary
What's happening in ISO committees for PDF technology
Duff Johnson, Dietrich von Seggern at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
ISO Standards for PDF

A survey of the major developments at “the ISO table” since the last in-person event in 2019. This session can help attendees to identify other PDF Days Europe 2020 sessions pertaining to specific technologies. This PDF Association session is presented … Read more

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Email Archiving in PDF
From Initial Specification to Community of Practice
Peter Wyatt, Prof. Chris Prom at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Archiving

Email is one of the most ubiquitous and widely disseminated, and also one of the least preserved and difficult to manage, of electronic document formats.  While the  preservation community has developed email-specific tools and preservation pathways, PDF provides a new … Read more

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Making more sense of PDF structures in the wild at scale
Progress and outcomes of analysis on 8 million PDFs gathered from Common Crawl
Tim Allison at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community

This is a follow-on talk from our 2021 PDF Days presentation on the File Observatory. Our team built the File Observatory to support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s SafeDocs program by enabling parser developers to understand features of PDFs in … Read more

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How PDF/R helps transforming image capture for mobile and cloud
presented by Rene Rebe, CEO of ExactCODE GmbH and TWAIN Working Group Member
Rene Rebe at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Creation

This presentation will summarize last year’s introduction and adaption of PDF/R and show how it fits into the TWAIN Working Group’s vision of mobile and de-centralized cloud based image capture. It will provide an outlook of the work in progress … Read more

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PDF’s mindshare
When and why users think about PDF
Duff Johnson at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community

In an update to his 2018 presentation on “PDF statistics”, PDF Association CEO Duff Johnson reviews some key stats about PDF’s utilization, popular awareness and reliance on the format.

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Navigating the PDF ecosystem
Let our CTO walk you through the many and various free technical resources provided by the PDF Association.
Peter Wyatt at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community ISO Standards for PDF

Let our CTO walk you through the many and various free technical resources provided by the PDF Association.

Peter Wyatt


Aligning PDF 1.7 and 2.0 through ISO 32005 and using these for Reflow, Reuse and Accessibility
A journey through modern tagging and the potential for future documents
Matthew Hardy at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Accessibility Reuse PDF 2.0

ISO 32005 is a new Technical Standard from WG9 (for which I am the ISO Project Leader) aimed at aligning and unifying the capabilities of the PDF 1.7 and PDF 2.0 tagset.  This talk will introduce this concept and how … Read more

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10 Years of PDF/A-3 Based Electronic Invoicing
The success-story continues with new hybrid document types
Bernd Wild at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Digital signatures Archiving

Almost 10 years ago, ZUGFeRD 1.0, the first invoice data format based on the public standards UN/CEFACT CII and PDF/A-3, was published. The stated intention was to digitize invoice exchange and make the transition from paper to data for SMEs … Read more

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Smart Legal Contracts and PDF
Does PDF have a role to play in the world of Digital Contracts, Blockchain and Crypto-Assets? Or will in-browser document formats dominate?
Neil Pitman at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Document management Digital signatures

Smarter contracts and blockchain technologies are already transforming business processes across commercial, legal and financial sectors and yet “We still approach contracts in much the same way as we have done for centuries. Decades old software such as PDF and … Read more

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PDF and CQRS/ES
Combining PDF with Modern Software Architecture
Francois Fernandes at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community Optimization

When working with documents associated with a business process, often many actions are performed on and with a document. Splitting the document, adding and removing pages, changing metadata, extracting business related information. There are many different actions, that are relevant … Read more

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How document understanding can leverage your PDF workflow
How to overcome the different challenges - fields of application
Elodie Tellier at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Document management

Document understanding is a constantly addressed topic and has become on top of the scene these last years with Deep Learning and NLP evolution. The PDF format is by nature unstructured, which implies sophisticated processes to extract and qualify information … Read more

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Leveling up RichMedia
Unlocking the Audio and Video potential of RichMedia
Patrick Gallot at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Engineering / 3D Rich media

The RichMedia Annotation has been embraced by the 3D PDF community for moving forward with PDF 2.0; But exploiting the potential for Audio and Video RichMedia Content has proven more challenging.  We will discuss the several generations of embedded multimedia … Read more

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PDF Optimization horror-stories
When right-sizing documents goes wrong.
Patrick Gallot at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Optimization

Optimizing PDFs to contain just the right amount of structural information can sometimes be quite challenging. We would like to present autopsies of some of the more gruesome PDF Optimization issues that we’ve encountered. Exact case studies TBD, but potentially … Read more

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How to make your PDF/A conversion easier
Picking PDF/A-2 over PDF/A-1
Akash Choudhary at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Archiving

The first Apple iPhone (1st generation), which was termed ‘revolutionary’ was released in 2007 with the slogan ‘Apple reinvents the phone’. While many of us are using Apple iPhones now, it is doubtful that anyone is using the 1st generation … Read more

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Barrierefreie PDF und Office – aktueller Stand
Microsoft Office und LibreOffice – PDF-Export mit Bordmitteln
Dirk Frölich at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
Accessibility

Mit den Bordmitteln von Microsoft Office oder LibreOffice ist die Erstellung von vollständig barrierefreie PDF-Dokumente nach WCAG oder PDF/UA nach wie vor nicht möglich. Mit jeder neuen Programmversion gibt es aber Kleinigkeiten, die sich verbessert haben. Der Vortrag (in deutscher … Read more

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Facing a pandemic: hit and miss of PDF, how could we have done better?
A global crisis pushed the use of PDF but the job is not done
Elodie Tellier at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community

France had one of the most restrictive laws during the pandemic. Long before vaccine passports were available, people had to fill out, sign, and carry certificates when they left their homes. In addition, while PDF was the electronic file format … Read more

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What’s holding PDF back?
Should PDF generation be a one-way street?
Dr. Tamir Hassan at PDF Days Europe 2022 ( 2022, Sep )
PDF community

PDF has long become the de facto format for exchanging print-oriented documents on the Web, and for a good reason: it works, and reliably so! However, as the lowest common denominator it is an end-of-line format, and is under constant … Read more

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